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Thieves steal Indian maharajahs' jewels 'worth millions' from Venice exhibition A tiger eye turban ornament, part of the collection owned by a member of the Qatari royal family that was on loan to VeniceThe Telegraph UK, 2 months ago

Standing atop a wall, 37-year-old Sabu Vijayan, an Alappuzha municipality sanitation worker, was singing as he used a long metal pipe to break a thick layer of waste floating on the two-metre-wide canal below him.The greenish-black water of the canal was ...

Mexican film director Guillermo Del Toro, who won last years Golden Lion for "The Shape of Water", will preside over the jury of the 75th Venice Film Festival."To serve as president in Venice is an immense honor and responsibility that I accept with respect ...

or centuries it was one of the most sophisticated shipyards in the world - the engine of Venice's extraordinary maritime wealth. Now the Arsenale, a fortified citadel of pillared boat sheds and Renaissance warehouses surrounded by crenelated walls, is being ...

5 things you must know about the giant of fashion, who passed into the ages on March 10. Supermodel Naomi Campbell walks the runway during the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2016 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.Decades after Hubert de Givenchy retired from the House of Givenchy, his legacy endured.Photograph: Dominique Charriau/Getty Images. Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy, both in his 6'6" stature and in the fashion legacy he created. Givenchy, who founded the house of ...

Every day is Women's Day, folks! You don't need Mel Gibson's special powers to find out what women want. It's very simple, actually. Sukanya Verma tells you everything she desires! Someone who treats her SPECIAL Apparently, it doesn't matter if you marry someone else so long as you name your daughter after her and regularly express what she means to you. Someone who makes her LAUGH! Nothing like a good sense of humour or Mehmood's dhinchak moves to make her burst into peals of ...

Award-winning South Korean director Kim Ki-Duk has been accused of rape by two female actors, a claim he denied.The two actors, who requested anonymity, opened up about their alleged encounters with the Venice Golden Lion-winning director on "PD Notebook", a ...

The onset of spring is a cause of festivities across the world. After our celebration of spring with Holi, we take a look at how the rest of the world celebrates. Celebrating Weiberfastnacht or the Women's Carnival in Cologne, Germany, which marks the start of a week of street festivals with the highlight "Rosenmontag" or Rose Monday processions.Photograph: Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters. A carnival reveller swings around a long wooden stick during the traditional folklore ...

A cold-weather front nicknamed the “beast from the east” has blasted snow and ice across Europe. The “beast” has swept snow storms and strong winds from Serbia across the continent, bringing “the coldest end of February and start of March in years for Europe. 'Beast from the East' slams Europe with heavy snow A bicycle is covered with snow near Grangemouth, Scotland, Britain. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters Sheep forage in the snow ...